16 June 2009

A man from Lower Sackville, N.S., says he will take Tim Hortons to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission because he can no longer get his coffee.

Dave Matthews needs a motorized scooter to get around because of a physical disability. He used to get his coffee at the Tim Hortons drive-thru in Lower Sackville. But at a new location, in Bedford, he ran into trouble.

Matthews said it's a matter of rights, arguing that he should be able to use the drive-thru.

This is off topic somewhat but the need for personal responsibility figures large in the first 2 comments and this article really hammers it home on a larger but different scale. If there is any place where the courts should be involved it is with this situation.....(he said- fearing what would happen if they did.) tinyurl.com/no7xtn

This is as bad as the guy from Ont who is suing the Rescue team that didn't find him or his wife. The fact they didn't tell anyone where they were going because the knew they were going to an off limit site makes no difference. So what is the result of this suit, Rescue teams in BC are no longer going to rescue people. They are quitting due to fear of being sued. Yes, the man's wife died, but had they not gone to forbidden areas, told someone where they were going and when, and how long they would be gone is the reason for the death.People who do stupid things will always be with us so be careful in the backcountry of BC. You are on your own.

It's hilarious watching you try to build an entire movement around this. All that will happen is Tim Hortons will move that store up higher on the list for retrofits. They make all their new stores fully accessible, and are in the process of doing the same in the existing outlets.

In the meantime, they will likely designate a small area outside where he can park his scooter and work it like the old A&W "Turn lights on for service". Or some other coffee place will do that. You know, free enterprise? Customer is number 1?

There must be true conservatives someplace, that actually try to look for solutions, instead of taking every news item and trying to force fit it into their agenda as you guys so transparently do.

Thanks for the correction, now that you mention it I remember, they were from Que. I also remember the son saying they did not tell anyone where they were going as they knew it was wrong. I hope he loses big time and has to pay costs. Today on the news, all rescue and search teams have stopped their operations. Maybe one is still operating. I wonder how many will die because of this man's greed. He was wrong.